Data Externality

Summary: Defines “data externality”: information services whose utility for others grows as usage generates data (e.g., search signals). Argues data-system design should explicitly exploit and manage these externalities, impacting incentives, ownership, and algorithms. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 154
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2011
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,679 | 6.15%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Rakesh Agrawal (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{agrawal_cidr11,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '11},
        title = {{Data Externality}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Agrawal, Rakesh},
        year = {2011}
}

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